Reqnix answers

Every answer below is aimed at a question people measurably search for, is written from named sources, and links to the page that handles the job itself. None of them is a landing page in disguise.

The answers here are the questions a small hiring desk asks around recruiting software: what each kind of product has to record, which of them is worth automating, what the pipeline and the agency fee actually cost, and how to judge a shortlist on your own numbers rather than on a ranking. Every one of them points at the free sheet that works the figure.

• HR recruitment software, judged by the record it keeps and the figures it can produce

  What HR recruitment software must record for a small employer, the four figures it should produce, and the free sheets that work them.

• Best recruiting software, decided by what your own desk actually needs rather than a ranking

  How to decide which recruiting software is best for a small hiring desk, and the free sheets that answer it on your own numbers.

• Best recruitment software, tested against the four figures a small desk has to produce

  A practical test for choosing recruitment software: make each shortlisted product produce your own cost per hire, time to hire and conversion.

• Top recruiting software, and why a ranking is the wrong tool for this decision

  Why this site publishes no ranking of recruiting software, what to use instead, and the free sheets that decide it on your own numbers.

• Recruitment automation, measured against the three numbers it is supposed to improve

  What recruitment automation actually changes for a small hiring desk, which costs it cannot touch, and the free sheets that measure the difference.

• Recruitment automation tools, ranked by the hours they actually remove from a small desk

  Which recruitment automation tools are worth it for a small hiring desk, judged by the hours they remove, and the free sheet that prices those hours.

• Recruiting automation, aimed at the stage that owns the wait rather than the one that gets blamed

  How to aim recruiting automation at the stage that actually holds up your hiring, with the free sheet that finds it.

• Recruitment process automation, starting from the process you actually run

  How to map a small desk's hiring process before automating it, which steps repay automation, and the free sheets that measure the result.

• Recruiting automation software, judged by what it can prove from your own data

  The five questions to ask a recruiting automation vendor, and the free sheets that let you check the answers against your own hiring.

• Automated recruitment, and the line between automating the admin and automating the decision

  Where to draw the line in automated recruitment for a small employer, what sits safely on each side, and the free sheets that measure the benefit.

• Automated recruiting, in the order a small desk should actually do it

  The order to automate hiring in at a small employer, starting with the step that costs the most, with free sheets for each figure.

• Automated recruitment software, separated into the record, the workflow and the judgement

  The three layers inside automated recruitment software, which of them a small desk actually needs, and the free sheets that price the benefit.

• The recruitment pipeline, as five numbers and the four ratios between them

  What a recruitment pipeline is in numbers, the four conversion ratios that describe it, and the free sheet that works them.

• A hiring pipeline built before the vacancy, and what it is actually worth in days

  What a hiring pipeline is worth to a small employer before a role opens, and the free sheet that puts a number on it.

• Pipeline recruiting, its real benefit and the two ways it commonly goes wrong

  What pipeline recruiting means in practice for a small desk, where it pays, and the free sheet that measures the conversion it assumes.

• Social recruiting software, judged by what it does to your applicant-to-screen ratio

  What social recruiting software changes for a small desk, the ratio it should move, and the free sheet that measures it.

• Social media recruiting tools, and the one number that says whether they worked

  Which social media recruiting tools help a small desk, what to measure before and after, and the free sheet that works the ratio.

• Social media as a recruitment tool, with the trade-off stated plainly

  What social media is genuinely good and bad at as a recruitment tool for a small employer, and the free sheet that measures it.

• Best recruitment software for agencies, judged on the client side rather than the candidate side

  What agency recruitment software must hold about clients and fees, not just candidates, and the free sheets that work the money.

• Best recruitment CRM software, tested on whether it connects a placement to its money

  How to test recruitment CRM software on the client and fee side, and the free sheets that work an agency's exposure.

• The contingency recruiting agreement, and the three numbers that decide whether it pays

  What a contingency recruiting agreement has to settle, the three numbers that decide whether it pays, and the free sheet that works them.

• The four types of recruiting software, and which one a small desk actually needs

  The four categories of recruiting software, what each is for, and which a small hiring desk needs first.

• ATS and HRIS, and the handover between them that small employers usually do by hand

  What an ATS does that an HRIS does not, where the two hand over, and what to check before buying either.

• ATS SaaS, and the three things a subscription buys that a spreadsheet cannot

  What an ATS delivered as SaaS actually buys a small employer over a spreadsheet, and what to check before subscribing.

• Applicant tracking software pricing, and where per-seat stops being cheaper

  How applicant tracking software is priced, where per-seat overtakes flat pricing, and what to check beyond the headline figure.

• Cloud recruitment, and the three things the delivery model actually changes

  What cloud delivery changes about recruiting software for a small employer, and the three questions worth asking a vendor.

• Online recruiting software, and the migration nobody asks about until it is too late

  What to check before moving a small desk onto online recruiting software, and the free sheets that measure whether it helped.

• An online recruiting system, judged by whether several people can use one record

  What an online recruiting system gives a small desk with several hiring managers, and what to check before buying.

• A recruitment app, and the three things a phone actually does better

  What a recruitment app on a phone is genuinely good for in a small business, and what it is not.

• The best recruitment tools for a small desk, in the order they pay for themselves

  The short list of recruitment tools a small hiring desk needs, in the order they pay, and the free sheets that price them.

• Online recruitment tools, and how much of the job can be done without buying anything

  How much of a small desk's hiring can be done with free online recruitment tools, and where paying starts to make sense.

• The best recruiting platforms question, and whether a bundle actually beats the parts

  Whether a recruiting platform beats separate tools for a small desk, and how to judge the bundle honestly.

• A virtual recruiting platform, and what changes when nobody meets in person

  What changes when a small desk hires entirely remotely, what a virtual recruiting platform adds, and what to keep.

• Text to recruit, where SMS genuinely helps and where it should not be used

  Where texting candidates helps a small hiring desk, where it should not be used, and what to check first.

• Candidate assessment, scored so the shortlist ranks itself rather than the loudest interviewer

  How to run a candidate assessment that produces a ranking you can defend, what to weight, and the free scoring sheet that works the arithmetic.

• Recruiter sourcing tools, judged by what they change in the pipeline; also the best sourcing tools for recruiters

  What recruiter sourcing tools change on a small desk, where they sit against the ATS, and the free sheet that says whether sourcing is your problem.

• Top talent acquisition software, tested by the four figures it can produce rather than by a ranking

  What separates talent acquisition software from an ATS, the four figures any of it should produce, and the free sheets that work them before you buy.

• Candidate feedback, kept as a record rather than a courtesy, and what it takes to give it

  What candidate feedback needs behind it before it can be given, how to keep it against the applicant, and the free scoring sheet it comes out of.

• How to calculate cost per hire on a small desk, and the costs most people leave out

  The cost per hire calculation, which external and internal costs belong in it, and the free sheet that works the figure from your own numbers.